Filters

[danohu]

Following a conversation with lavendersparkle yesterday, I've decided to start using more filters.


I don't currently use many filters at all. There are a couple for semi-confidential work-related things, and one to separate the Russian livejournals from the ones belonging to people I actually know. I also have a filter for frivolous memes, which consists of friends who post that kind of thing themselves.

I'm mainly adding an angst-filter so that I can post grumpy things without worrying about looking like I'm angling for hugs, and to prod me into moving more things across from my private diary.


So, there will be an angst filter. Who wants in?

[Poll #724434]

Also, has anybody come up with a way to make posts public, without having them appear on my friends' friendspages? It seems silly to inflict things like Cambridge event announcements on friends in America, but at the same time there are lj-less friends who I'd like to be able to see them.

Comments

Re: A way to make posts public, without having them appear on my friends' friendspages

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

It would be more complicated, but there's definitely demand. Lots of people have "who doesn't want to be on my foo filter" posts, if you had half a dozen buttons options for things like that, which you can ignore completely if you don't want to think about it, it should work.

In fact, you may end up with not hiding posts, but specifying how interesting they are, and then they're on your friends page either in full, or in small font, or just as subject and first line.

Re: A way to make posts public, without having them appear on my friends' friendspages

[(Anonymous)]

My point was, I think, that you don't need any extra functions at all at the writer's end. It can be done better and more simply at the reader's end.

Foo filters are for the writer to decide who is *allowed* to read the posts. Tags let them categorise them in a way that presumably correlates with who might be interested in them. It's then up to readers to decide whether they actually are interested in them.

Re: A way to make posts public, without having them appear on my friends' friendspages

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Then the interface won't be more complicated after all :)

OTOH, I don't think it's quite as easy as that. The writer probably needs some way of saying "These are official tags you may want to filter by," (either just by posting that, or a list of such tags like the current list of filters), otherwise the reader won't know that the tag is guaranteed to be used, and not to be used on posts with nontagged stuff as well, etc.